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Business Link (East of England)
If you’re in business and you’re in the East of England, this is an excellent resource for business advice, free workshops and seminars, business support, funding sources and all the latest news on legislation, regulation and more.
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Carbon Trust
The Carbon Trust is a government-funded independent company set up to help businesses and public sector organisations cut carbon emissions and to exploit the potential of low carbon technologies. It provides information, advice and practical solutions, including funding, to help businesses save energy.
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Energy Saving Trust
The Energy Saving Trust is a non-profit organisation, funded by government and the private sector, to provide information and advice to businesses, individuals and organisations on how to cut CO2 emissions by promoting the sustainable and efficient use of energy.
Click here to visit The Energy Saving Trust
NetRegs
NetRegs is a partnership between the UK environmental regulators and provides free environmental guidance for small businesses in the UK to help them understand how to comply with environmental legislation and protect the environment.
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The Pyramid Resource Centre
A Thurrock Play Network Project
Your surplus waste products could provide a valuable source of entertainment, play and stimulation for young people ... and help the environment, all at NO COST TO YOU.
Call: 01375 387738
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Renewables East
Renewables East make involvement with renewable energy in the East of England easier. If you’re already involved in sustainable power, if you’re an investor, a business owner, an academic - or anybody else with an interest in renewable energy - this is your gateway to sources of further information.
Click here to visit Renewables East
Envirowise
Since 1994, Envirowise has helped UK industry save more than £1 billion by reducing waste early on in their organisation processes.
They also offer advice on managing unavoidable waste and working with your suppliers to maximise gains from beginning to end.
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Eastex
The National Materials Exchange is a free online service for businesses and other organisations that helps to keep reusable items in circulation and out of landfill. It works on the concept that one person’s waste is another’s resource; allowing items to be effectively and efficiently passed on and sourced. The online forum allows you to place adverts and pictures for available or wanted items.
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MAS East
The Manufacturing Advisory Service in the East of England (MAS East) is a dedicated source of support to engineering, manufacturing and technology businesses within the region. Our team of Specialists can provide you with support via our free manufacturing helpline, a fully funded one-day business review or through subsidised practical, hands-on consultancy support.
Click here to visit MAS East
ReMaDe Essex
Recyclable Market Development Essex is an ambitious project set up in 2000 to create new markets and secondary uses for recycled materials in Essex.
The project aims are to help Essex businesses exploit the opportunities arising from the increased re-use of materials, encourage capital investment in new reprocessing capacity in Essex, develop new added value markets for secondary materials in Essex, help to create jobs by expanding the environmental technologies sector in Essex and maximise recycling rates in Essex.
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WaterWise
Waterwise is a UK NGO focused on decreasing water consumption in the UK and building the evidence base for large scale water efficiency. They are the leading authority on water efficiency in the UK.
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WRAP
WRAP’s priority is to prevent waste arising and to re-use and recycle resources, but an element of unavoidable residual waste will always exist. Creating energy from this residual waste, which would otherwise go to landfill, may be an alternative option.
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